It was only last week that Privacy News Online wrote about introducing vaccine passports in order to provide additional freedoms to those who have received one of the Covid-19 vaccines.…
Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California has ruled to let the state of California enact SB 822, a net neutrality law that…
It is almost exactly a year ago that this blog first talked about the implications of Covid-19 for freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy – one of the earliest to…
WhatsApp has confirmed that users that don’t accept their controversial new privacy policy will eventually have their accounts deleted. The new privacy policy’s roll out has been delayed from February…
One of the first things that you hear to do on Clubhouse is to add your Twitter and Instagram accounts to your Clubhouse profile for discoverability because otherwise there’s really…
Spotify has been granted a patent on using your phone’s microphone to analyze the sounds around you for the purpose of giving song recommendations. The technology would listen for environmental…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that border security doesn’t need a warrant to do a digital search of your device at borders. The court…
The EU's GDPR has had a massive effect on privacy worldwide. But as a post explained back in 2018, there's more EU privacy legislation coming through which could have a…
This blog has written a number of times about the growing threat that low-cost, rapid DNA sequencing represents for privacy. The increased use of genetic material by the police to…
South Africa’s Constitutional Court - or Concourt as it is often referred to - has banned mass surveillance of internet communications in the country. The court decisions came as a…